1953 · 1h 50m · Drama, War

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate yet tragic relationship with his late…
Director: Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Writers: Kaneto Shindō, Yasunari Kawabata
Music by: Akira Ifukube
Cinematography: Kazuo Miyagawa